Microsoft offered the ability for Mac users free to explore the Edge browser included with Windows 10, download and install it on your computer virtual machine, Cnews reports. To do this, the company released the OS images to the most popular hypervisors.
The Mac owners can download a virtual machine of Windows 10 for VMware Fusion, Parallels Desktop, and Oracle VirtualBox. And the owners of the OS on the Linux kernel for VirtualBox. Virtual machine is also available for download to users of previous Windows versions, for use with Oracle VirtualBox, VMware Workstation and Microsoft HyperV.
Virtual machines allow you to run multiple operating systems on one computer at a time. For example, users of OS X can run Windows right inside staffing of the operating system and work with them simultaneously. Each OS is isolated from the other, but the user can combine desktops and specify a shared folder with the files that will be accessible from both operating systems.
The presence of a virtual machine with Windows 10 and Edge for Mac enables users who do not work with ASEAN, to meet a new browser without any functionality restrictions, says Microsoft. However, it is worth remembering that the performance of operating systems and applications inside a VM running inside another OS is lower than if the system and applications were launched directly metal.
With Edge in the VM contains all the standard Windows application. That is, Microsoft had not limited the functionality of the OS in a virtual machine is a system with a complete set of functions. But, under a licensing agreement, it cannot be used for commercial purposes, but only for testing purposes.
Users can create a virtual machine with Windows 10 and Edge. But for this they will require the distribution of Windows 10. Releasing ready VMS, Microsoft has facilitated this task. Because virtual machines contain inside the Windows operating system, they are quite large. For example, the volume VM for Parallels Desktop is about 5.5 GB.
